when describing an exciting play during NHL broadcasts. Hughson has also had small roles in two sports-related family comedies: MVP: Most Valuable Primate (2000) and Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch (2002). Hughson is an avid runner with routes in all 30 NHL cities. Hughson returned to the broadcast booth for the Toronto Blue Jays when CBC picked up a package of Blue Jays games for the 2007 and 2008 seasons. In addition to his Canadian sportscasting work, Hughson has made occasional appearances for ABC and ESPN in the United States, covering both hockey and baseball. In 1998, Hughson returned to national sports broadcasting, joining CTV Sportsnet (now Rogers Sportsnet) as their main NHL play-by-play commentator alongside Craig Simpson. For three seasons he continued calling Canucks' regional telecasts on Sportsnet Pacific but on March 11, 2008, he signed an exclusive six-year contract with the CBC, leaving Rogers Sportsnet at the conclusion of the 2007–08 season. The CBC's sports programming primarily airs on CBC Television, CBCSports.ca, and CBC Radio One. [2] In 2019, the Hockey Hall of Fame announced that Hughson was named as the winner of the annual Foster Hewitt Memorial Award, honouring outstanding contributions by a hockey broadcaster. CBC Sports is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for English-language sports broadcasting. A caveat of the deal limits CBC to the number of games per Canadian team it can show so that the seven Canadian-based teams, particularly the Toronto Maple Leafs, can distribute more games to regional carriers, thereby increasing the value of their local packages. In 2005, Hughson was hired by CBC as Hockey Night in Canada's secondary play-by-play announcer. TSN had previously broadcast Sunday Night Baseball from 1990 to 2000. He is known primarily for his work on Hockey Night in Canada. The broadcast on June 22, 2007 was the first baseball game he had called in 13 years. Martinez managed the Toronto Blue Jays from 2001 to May 2002 and Team USA at the inaugural World Baseball Classic in 2006. He is an actor and writer, known for MVP: Most Valuable Primate (2000), Hockey Night in Canada (1952) and NHL 2002 (2001). He has a daughter named Jennifer and son Matthew. Sportscasting Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. Such a package, which would have left CBC without NHL hockey, would have increased TSN's previously existing coverage of NHL games; the attempt also came at a time when CTVglobemedia had outbid the CBC for Canadian television rights to the 2010 and 2012 Olympics, as well as the major television package for curling. TSN has broadcast Major League Baseball games since they went on the air in 1984. In October 2014, Hughson re-joined Sportsnet, as its parent company Rogers Communications had acquired sole national television rights to the NHL in Canada, taking effect as of the 2014-15 season. As well, the title Hockey Night in Canada could not be used as the name is owned by CBC, unless CTVglobemedia were to pay royalties to CBC for use of the name. He also called men's ice hockey at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. TSN has also broadcast Toronto Blue Jays (1984-2009) and Montreal Expos games. Hughson is an avid runner with routes in all 31 NHL cities. Generally speaking, the bigger the hexagon is, the more valuable Jim Hughson networth should be on the internet! Official Sites. He is the lead play-by-play commentator for the Vancouver Canucks on the television station Sportsnet Pacific. In this role, he broadcast games three and four of the 1982 Stanley Cup Finals between the Canucks and New York Islanders.